Verizon toys with same-day smartphone delivery option

Who wants to wait around for days just to get the new smartphone you ordered online? Verizon announced this week that it’s started up a pilot program that will deliver online smartphone orders to customers on the same day that they’re placed. The carrier is rolling out the program in Philadelphia and will spread it to New York City, Dallas, San Francisco and Pittsburgh in the near future. Same-day delivery isn’t free, however: Customers who want their phone to show up on the day it’s ordered will have to place their orders by 10 a.m. and pay Verizon $20 for a guarantee that it will be at their doorstep by 7 p.m. that evening.